Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "WOW, What a ride!!!"
- James Fineous McBride

“If I had 6 hours to cut down a tree I would spend 4 hours sharpening the axe.”
- Abraham Lincoln -

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.Do good anyway.If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.Do good anyway.Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack if you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.
Demetri Martin

The only paradise is paradise lost.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.